BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 3 July, 2006

Monday

3 July, 2006

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Baron Dave Romm

Superman Returns

By Baron Dave Romm

Superman Returns

and Keith Ellison arrives

Thumbs down on Superman Returns. It's directly in the line of Superman movies starting with the 1978 version, and doesn't work at all. Brandon Routh is okay as a Christopher Reeve replacement and his cape flaps nicely, but only okay. His part is so poorly written that in the movie's best scene (after a rescue... you'll know it when you see it...) he doesn't know where to stand. Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane makes you hanker for Margot Kidder. The plot is dumb, the special effect are poor and Perry White's editorial instincts are bad enough that he belongs on Fox, not at the Daily Planet. Jimmy Olson still is a cub reporter. (It's nice that they brought back the Jimmy and Lois from the 50s tv show. But they spend a lot of time too self-consciously not being the 50s tv show with strained attempts at wit, and don't use either of them to effect.) The movie doesn't know what time period it wants to be in: The 30s, the 70s or today. Kevin Spacey is the best part of the movie: Gene Hackman played Lex Luthor more broadly, and Spacey is deliciously comical as well. In addition, Spacey is creepy and you can believe he's that evil.

I find I have very little to say about Superman Returns. Even the credits aren't as good as the first movie. A full review would contain too many plot spoilers, which I don't want to do. On the Shockwave scale of 9 to 23, where 23 is good, I'd give Superman Returns about a 14, with Kevin Spacey being at least two pips of that. Avoid.

A quick non-spoiler: You don't have to stay around until after the credits.

Hmm... this is shorter than usual, so here's a few bonus comments.


My Congressman is retiring after 28 years. Martin Olav Sabo, a stern and liberal Lutheran, has represented this district well. Here in Minnesota, a political party endorsement is a plus, but no guarantee of victory in the primary, though this is safely a Democratic seat. I had a chance to interview the DFL's endorsed candidate, Keith Ellison, July 1st. Ellison is currrently a state representative, and has been a defense lawyer and community radio host. If elected to national office, Ellison would be the first African-American to represent Minnesota (at least that I can think of) and the first Muslim in Congress. I didn't know anything about the guy except for the Keith Ellison web site and various unflattering portrayals in the conservative news media.

As a science fiction humor show, I usually reduce politics to making fun of it and perhaps interviewing office holders. But this is an important election for the Congressional District we broadcast from. Whoever wins the election is likely to be our Congressman for a couple of decades so we need to choose well. As much as you can get to know someone in a short period, I liked Ellison and would be proud to have him as our district's standard-bearer. I'll talk to the other candidates before making a final decision, but Ellison has the inside track at the moment.

I haven't made the podcast or put the mp3 on my site as yet, but if you want to hear the interview (in Real Audio) click here until the afternoon of July 8, and here from July 8 to July 15. Shockwave starts a minute or two into the file.

But I can poke fun at anybody. I'm going to have the Green Party endorsed candidate on in a few weeks. I wonder if the Republican endorsed candidate will have the guts to return my phone calls...


George Orwell is laughing: The Bush administration accuses itself of treason. US monitoring of SWIFT transactions have been known for some time.

Yesterday's New York Times Story on US monitoring of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) transactions certainly hit the street with a splash. It awoke the general public to the practice. In that sense, it was truly new news. But reports on US monitoring of SWIFT transactions have been out there for some time. The information was fairly well known by terrorism financing experts back in 2002. The UN Al Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Group , on which I served as the terrorism financing expert, learned of the practice during the course of our monitoring inquiries. The information was incorporated in our report to the UN Security Council in December 2002.
With the pouffed-up bluster of a chickenhawk, Bush Lite called such revelations disgraceful. Once again, Bush shows that he just doesn't give a damn. And the gullible conservatives are eating it up. Now that's disgraceful.


Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia who produces Shockwave Radio Theater, writes in a Live Journal demi-blog, plays with a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. Dave Romm reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E. Podcasts being reworked. Recent radio programs can be accessed on the Shockwave Radio audio page.

Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play on the air.

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-- Rosie, "The Jetsons"


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Mike Ferner: 'Has this country gone completely insane?' (smirkingchimp.com)
This afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center on Chicago's south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, "OK, you've had your 15 minutes, it's time to go." "Huh?", I asked intelligently, not quite sure what he was talking about. "You can't be in here protesting," officer Adkins said, pointing to my Veterans For Peace shirt.


Roger Ebert: Cabiria (1914; A Great Movie)
Consider another scene where warriors with shields approach a city wall. Eight of them (as I recall) bend double and put their shields on their backs. Six climb onto those shields, bend double and put their own shields on their backs. Four more stand on them, and two more on them, and at last the hero is able to climb this human pyramid and reach the top of the wall. This is a stunt taking place in one shot before our eyes, and if the legs of one of the warriors had buckled, it would not have been a pretty sight. Because all of this is so palpably real, there is an undeniable sense of wonder in seeing it achieved, as there is when Douglas Fairbanks Sr. or Buster Keaton do their own stunts in shots deliberately photographed so we can see they were not faked.


Roger Ebert: Wassup Rockers (3 Stars)
The only subject [Larry Clark] feels any passion for is, obviously, the private lives of teenagers. Does that make him a pervert? Look at it this way. Hollywood has a cottage industry in Dead Teenager Movies, all devising formulas in which the young characters die in sudden and colorful ways. Clark listens to them and takes them seriously. His films may be the only truthful ones about some aspects of American adolescence, however we might wish that were not so. "Wassup Rockers," for better and worse, is about lives that might actually be lived.


Rose Yndigoyen: Queer Women in Webcomics: A Primer (afterellen.com)
Although comics for queer women are still a small niche within the wider webcomic community, the ones that rise to the top of the existing pack are some of the most exciting reading you can find online.


Jesus Chrsist: There's No Way I'm Saving That Guy (theonion.com)
All right. I realize I am supposed to be all-merciful, universally loving, the Light and the Way and everything, but even a divine avatar of the Supreme Being's loving grace has His limits. I know I've said many times that there is always room for one more-even the lowliest-at the table of the Lord, but even so, there is just no freaking way I'm redeeming this S.O.B.


Tully Satre: Why do "family" groups destroy families? (advocate.com)
With hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, right-wing so-called "family" groups ought to be helping LGBT youth instead of alienating them from their conservative parents.


James Hillis: The Great Pink Scare (afterelton.com)
Based in part on Barry Werth's 2002 book The Scarlet Professor, The Great Pink Scare's title plays on Werth's assertion that in 1950's America "It was more dangerous to be discovered as a homosexual than it was to be discovered as a communist."


Karman Kregloe: Writing with Heart: Journalist Anne Stockwell (afterellen.com)
Ultimately, Stockwell's love of the "gay beat" is due to her belief that, "Gay people are the most imaginative, enterprising, resourceful people on earth. And they're brave and steadfast. I really have loved the chance to learn more about us."


Comic: Boobs Ahoy (boobsahoy.comicgenesis.com)


Comic: Yu+Me (yume.comicgen.com/)

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Hubert's Poetry Corner

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Filling For Jay Marvin TODAY

Erin Hart

Erin Hart sits in for Jay Marvin on Boulder's Progressive AM 760, Monday, July 3 & Tuesday, the 4th.

Monday we talk to Ken Gude, Associate Director of the International Rights and Responsibilities Program at the Center for American Progress about the Supreme Court ruling that military tribunals for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba do not comply with the Geneva Conventions regarding treatment of prisoners.

Also on Monday, we check in about how the Bush taxes hit most of us with Colorado's Progressive Coalition. Find out just how regressive these taxes are. And we follow up on immigration with Keep Colorado Safe. Find out what they will compromise on and what they will not!

Tuesday, celebrate our country's birth with fireworks supplied by the newest Americans among us. New citizens are particularly invited to participate. Joining us will be Minister Jamal Rahman, who recently became a citizen after living and working in Seattle for several years. Find out what July 4th means to him as a Muslim, as a progressive, as a new citizen.

That and so much more-please check out erinhartshow.com for further details (or drop marty a note).

Adventure is everywhere. . .

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

HE DON'T KNOW JACK

A CONVENIENT LIE

REALLY, REALLY, REALLY SICK FUCKING CONSERVATIVES

FASCISM WRAPPED IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE

EVEN THE REPUGS DON'T LIKE THIS BITCH

BEAT THE CHIMP, LOSE YOUR JOB

LUNATICS AND PATRIOTS

ALL TIT AND NO BRAINS

BUSH LIVES IN THE WHITEHOUSE!!!? THOSE DAMN LIBERAL TRAITORS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIMP BOY


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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Still hot, still humid.

The ant farm experiment is officially over.


No new flags.


Tonight, Monday:

CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'King Of Queens', followed by a RERUN 'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN '2½ Men', followed by a RERUN 'Old Christine', then a RERUN 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 5/24/06) are Jennifer Aniston and Rob Zombie.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Ludacris, Tom Everett Scott, and Speech.

NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Treasure Hunters', followed by a FRESH 'Treasure Hunters', then a RERUN 'Medium'.
On a RERUN Leno (from 6/15/06) are Kate Beckinsale, Jim Norton, and She Wants Revenge.
On a RERUN Conan (from 12/14/05) are Donald Trump, Emily Mortimer, and Susan Tedeschi.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 4/5/06) are Lukas Haas and Joe Firstman.

ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'Wife Swap', followed by a RERUN 'Supernanny', then a FRESH 'How To Get The Guy'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 6/7/06) are Rosanna Arquette, Larry the Cable Guy, spelling bee champ Kerry Close, and Him.

The WB offers a RERUN '7th Heaven', followed by another RERUN '7th Heaven'.

Faux fills the night with the movie 'Mr. Deeds'.

UPN here fills the night with LIVE 'MLB Baseball', with the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels visit in Seattle.

A&E has 'Inked', another 'Inked', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', and the movie 'Patriot Games'.

AMC offers the movie 'Jaws', followed by the movie 'The Man From Snowy River', then the movie 'For A Few Dollars More'.

BBC  -   
 [2:00 pm]    'As Time Goes By' - Episode 1;
 [2:40 pm]    'Are You Being Served' - Dear Sexy Knickers;
 [3:20 pm]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 4;
 [4:00 pm]    'My Hero' - Mine's a Double;
 [4:40 pm]    'My Family' - The Last Resort;
 [5:20 pm]    'My Family' - Farewell To Alarms;
 [6:00 pm]    'BBC World News';
 [6:30 pm]    'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
 [7:00 pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 52;
 [8:00 pm]    'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 7;
 [8:30 pm]    'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 1;
 [10:30 pm]    'Unsolved' - Episode 4;
 [11:00 pm]    'Spaced' - Episode 3;
 [11:30 pm]    'Peep Show' - Episode 1;
 [12:00 am]    'Black Books' - Episode 2;
 [12:30 am]    'Just For Laughs' - Episode 3;
 [2:30 am]    'Unsolved' - Episode 4;
 [3:00 am]    'Take Me' - Episode 1;
 [4:00 am]    'Take Me' - Episode 2;
 [5:00 am]    'Take Me' - Episode 3;
 [6:00 am]    'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has all 'The 100 Funniest Movies' all night.

Comedy Central has the movie 'Not Another Teen Movie', 'Bill Engvall: Here's Your Sign Live', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'UFO Files', 'Digging For The Truth', and 'Deep Sea Detectives'.

IFC  -   
 [01:30 AM]    The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love;
 [03:15 AM]    High Art;
 [05:00 AM]    July: IFC Short Film Showcase;
 [06:00 AM]    Birthday Girl;
 [07:30 AM]    The Young Girls of Rochefort;
 [09:45 AM]    At The IFC Center #15;
 [10:15 AM]    The Empty Mirror;
 [12:15 PM]    Only the Strong Survive;
 [02:00 PM]    The Young Girls of Rochefort;
 [04:15 PM]    The Empty Mirror;
 [06:15 PM]    Short: Band Camp;
 [06:30 PM]    Samurai 7 Episode #14: "The Offering";
 [07:00 PM]    Slasher;
 [08:30 PM]    Media Lab Uploaded;
 [09:00 PM]    Paper Chasers;
 [10:45 PM]    Dust;
 [01:00 AM]    Paper Chasers;
 [02:30 AM]    IFC In Theaters;
 [02:45 AM]    Wide Sargasso Sea;
 [04:30 AM]    Slasher;
 [06:00 AM]    Wide Sargasso Sea.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has Day 2 (of 3) of their 'Twilight Zone' marathon.

Sundance  -   
 [07:30 AM]    House Of Cards;
 [09:30 AM]    Interesting Times: Xiao's Long March;
 [10:15 AM]    Salvador Allende;
 [12:00 PM]    Hamburger America;
 [01:00 PM]    Disbelief;
 [02:45 PM]    Bruce and Me;
 [04:15 PM]    Salvador Allende;
 [06:00 PM]    Interesting Times: Xiao's Long March;
 [06:45 PM]    Big Storm: The Lynndie England Story;
 [07:30 PM]    Hamburger America;
 [08:30 PM]    House of Boateng: Episode 2;
 [09:00 PM]    Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt;
 [10:45 PM]    Me, Myself and the Universe;
 [11:00 PM]    Darwin's Nightmare;
 [01:00 AM]    Mon Ange;
 [02:30 AM]    Welcome to Woop Woop;
 [04:15 AM]    House Of Cards.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM:
 [6:15 AM]    Alibi Ike (1935);
 [7:30 AM]    Whistling In Brooklyn (1943);
 [9:00 AM]    Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)     [View Trailer];
 [11:00 AM]    Angels In The Outfield (1951)     [View Trailer];
 [1:00 PM]    The Stratton Story (1949);
 [3:00 PM]    The Pride Of The Yankees (1942);
 [5:15 PM]    Fear Strikes Out (1957);
 [7:00 PM]    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990);
 [8:00 PM]    The Wizard Of Oz (1939)     [View Trailer];
 [10:00 PM]    The Wiz (1978)     [View Trailer];
 [12:30 AM]    The Wizard of Oz (1925) SILENT ;
 [1:45 AM]    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) SILENT ;
 [2:00 AM]    Elvis: That's The Way It Is 2001 (2001);
 [4:00 AM]    Girl Happy (1965)     [View Trailer].    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Tuesday  -  07/04

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]    Listen, Darling (1938);
 [7:15 AM]    Tom Thumb (1958)     [View Trailer];
 [9:00 AM]    The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T. (1953);
 [10:30 AM]    Oliver! (1968)     [View Trailer];
 [1:15 PM]    Going My Way (1944)     [View Trailer];
 [3:30 PM]    Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)     [View Trailer];
 [5:30 PM]    Memories of Oz (2001);
 [6:00 PM]    The Wizard Of Oz (1939)     [View Trailer];
 [8:00 PM]    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)     [View Trailer];
 [10:15 PM]    Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)     [View Trailer];
 [12:30 AM]    Sergeant York (1941)     [View Trailer];
 [3:00 AM]    Knute Rockne All American (1940);
 [5:00 AM]    The Flag (1927) SILENT ;
 [5:30 AM]    Winning Your Wings (1942).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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Former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters performs at the Hyde Park Calling Festival, in central London, on Saturday Saturday July 1, 2006.
Photo by Yui Mok
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Moose & Squirrel - The Blog

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THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION LIBRARY OF BANNED CARTOONS

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Darfur Needs More

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow, who recently returned from her second trip to Darfur, says more international aid is desperately needed in the western Sudan province.

The actress and U.N. Children's Fund goodwill ambassador told ABC's "This Week" that in Darfur alone, UNICEF has only 20 percent of what it needs to continue its work.

"And that's really why I'm here, to tell people I've seen firsthand that UNICEF and other aid agencies are all that there is right now to sustain these lives, keeping people alive," Farrow said on the show, which aired Sunday.

Mia Farrow

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Olivia Harrison, wife of the late George Harrison, and her son Dhani Harrison arrive for the gala premiere of 'The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil' at the Mirage hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada June 30, 2006.
Photo by Steve Marcus
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Jack in the House :: How Jack Abramoff Bought Congress

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Will Sing In Sarajevo Again

Jose Carreras

Spanish tenor Jose Carreras will sing again in Sarajevo, 12 years after performing in a burned-out library to raise money for rebuilding the war-ravaged Bosnian capital.

The singer said Saturday that he will perform July 10 with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Spanish conductor David Jimenez as part of a music festival.

Carreras said he was excited to be returning to Bosnia, where in June 1994 he joined conductor Zubin Mehta and other stars in a charity performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass at the National Library, which had been burned to a hulk two years earlier by Serb shelling.

Jose Carreras

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bartcook

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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TNT Renews For Another Season

'The Closer'

TNT has picked up its red-hot series "The Closer" for a third season.

The cable network has ordered 15 more episodes of the detective drama starring Kyra Sedgwick to run in summer 2007.

The announcement comes two weeks after the show's second-season premiere smashed the ratings record for a basic cable original scripted series with 8.3 million viewers.

'The Closer'

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In this handout photo provided by Hard Rock International, classic rockers Roger Daltry, left, and Pete Townsend of The Who rock perform at 'Hard Rock Presents Hyde Park Calling,' Sunday, July 2, 2006, in London. The Hyde Park Calling festival, a two-day concert event, featuring rock legends Roger Waters and The Who, will kick off Hard Rock's Ambassadors of Rock Tour, a series of concerts.
Photo by Dan Higgins
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Big Ten

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Hospital News

Roger Ebert

Film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, was in serious condition at a hospital Sunday following an emergency operation to repair complications from an earlier cancer surgery.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper - co-host of the "Ebert and Roeper" movie review show - told the paper that Ebert's vital signs appeared to be good after the hours-long operation.

About 8 p.m. Saturday, a blood vessel burst near the site of the operation, the Sun-Times reported Sunday on its Web site. A Northwestern Memorial Hospital spokeswoman declined to comment Sunday afternoon.

Roger Ebert

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Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund discusses the children of Katrina as she speaks to a full house during a seminar at the Essence Music Festival in Houston, Sunday, July 2, 2006. The three-day Essence Fest, featuring daylong seminars and nights filled with top-name musical acts, is being held outside of New Orleans for the first time because of damage to the Louisiana Superdome.
Photo by Tim Johnson
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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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Canada Day Debut

Canadian Guitar

A remarkable acoustic guitar made up of bits and pieces of Canadian history makes its debut Saturday at a Canada Day performance on Parliament Hill. A look at its parts:

The neck: decking from the Bluenose II; the Papineau Manor (built by Louis-Joseph Papineau who led the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837-38); a bagel shibba from Montreal; oak from the St. Boniface Museum (the oldest building in Winnipeg, where Louis Riel went to school)

Inside: a piece from Fan Tan Alley (Canada's first Chinatown in Victoria); champion skier Nancy Greene's childhood skis; former prime minister Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle

Maple Leaf pick guard: part of cowboy John Ware's cabin; part of basketball inventor John Naismith's house; an inset of a wooden nickel made out of the third Maid of the Mist built in 1885; red ochre stain from Newfoundland; Paul Henderson's hockey stick; Wayne Gretzky's hockey stick; a seat from the Montreal Forum

For more - Canadian Guitar

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Pleads Guilty

Dallas Austin

Grammy-winning producer Dallas Austin, who has crafted songs for TLC, Madonna and Michael Jackson, pleaded guilty Sunday to cocaine charges in the United Arab Emirates, a newspaper reported.

The songwriter, whose life story was loosely depicted in the 2002 movie "Drumline," was arrested May 19 at Dubai's airport.

He was on his way to a three-day birthday party for supermodel Naomi Campbell at a Dubai hotel, the newspaper reported. He was charged with cocaine possession and has been held without bail at a police station, it said.

Dallas Austin

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Members of the group Earth Wind and Fire performs at the Essence Music festival in Houston, Saturday, July 1, 2006. The festival ordinarily held in New Orleans was moved to Houston due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Photo by Tim Johnson
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TRAILERS - TheMovieBox

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Japanese Revival

Beatlemania

The Beatles visited Japan only once as a band, but the country is commemorating the 40th anniversary of their concerts as if the Fab Four had never left the stage.

Japanese media are lost in Beatlemania, and the hotel where they last stayed in 1966 is offering a special last viewing of their suite before the hotel's demolition.

"We have done our best to restore the presidential suite to how it looked when the Beatles stayed," Michael Miyauchi, of the Capitol Tokyu Hotel, said as lines of fans queued for a viewing. The hotel was the Tokyo Hilton in 1966.

Beatlemania

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A reveller wearing indigenous costume dances in unison during the Parintins jungle carnival deep in the heart of the Amazon forest July 2, 2006. Two rival teams named after oxen competed in a spectacle recounting indian tales, local history and the region's cattle ranching roots. The Carnival-style event began only 41 years ago, but its roots date back to 1913 when roving bands of singers donned bulls costumes and danced in the streets to improvised lyrics.
Photo by Bruno Domingos
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Amapa, Brazil

Tropical Stonehenge

A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory - a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.

The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet in diameter.

On the shortest day of the year - Dec. 21 - the shadow of one of the blocks disappears when the sun is directly above it.

Anthropologists have long known that local indigenous populations were acute observers of the stars and sun. But the discovery of a physical structure that appears to incorporate this knowledge suggests pre-Columbian Indians in the Amazon rainforest may have been more sophisticated than previously suspected.

Tropical Stonehenge

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A model presents a creation during the OMC Hairworld event in Moscow July 2, 2006.
Photo by Sergei Karpukhin
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Crazy for Cows

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'Too Many Rats Man'

Roger Dier

It all started four years ago when Roger Dier bought a baby rat to feed his pet Indian python. But when he saw the furry little critter squeaking for its life, the lifelong animal lover said he didn't have the heart to let it become just another snake snack.

"I couldn't stand it," he told The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa. "I took the rat out of the cage and got to know it."

After that, Dier was hooked on the rodents, which he described as gentle, lovable and an endless source of entertainment. He later bought four more at the pet store - but didn't think to spay or neuter them.

Last week, animal control officers discovered more than 1,300 rats in Dier's small one-bedroom Petaluma home, after a neighbor complained about the foul smell. He was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty.

For the rest, Roger Dier

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Most Tasteless Figurines

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In Memory

George Page

George Page, the creator and host of the long-running PBS series "Nature," died Wednesday. He was 71.

He was a journalist and broadcaster for more than 50 years, and was best known as the voice of the PBS wildlife series.

"Nature" debuted in 1982 and has consistently been one of public television's highest-rated shows. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series, produced for public broadcasting by Thirteen/WNET in New York, will begin its 25th season this fall.

Page narrated every episode of "Nature," nearly 300 overall, until retiring from television because of illness in 1998.

Page worked for an NBC affiliate in Atlanta before joining NBC News, where he became a foreign correspondent and covered the Vietnam War.

George Page

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In Memory

Lennie Weinrib

Lennie Weinrib, a character actor, writer, director and voice-over artist who brought to life "H.R. Pufnstuf," died Wednesday. He was 71.

Weinrib had a varied career that included working as a standup comic, appearing in the "Billy Barnes Revue" on Broadway in 1959 and co-writing the 1963 joke classic "The Elephant Book."

As a character actor, he appeared on such TV shows as "My Favorite Martian," "77 Sunset Strip," "The Twilight Zone," "The Munsters" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

Weinrib also directed low-budget teen movies in the mid-1960s. Yet he garnered the most acclaim as a voice-over artist.

By the mid-1960s, he was supplying voices for everything from Ford and Avis to Pepsodent toothpaste and Hunt's tomato sauce.

He also provided voices for numerous TV cartoons, including "The Addams Family," "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show," "The New Tom & Jerry Show," and "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo."

Lennie Weinrib

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A mouse rides on the back of a frog in floodwaters in the northern Indian city Lucknow June 30, 2006.
Photo by Pawan Kumar
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Twisted Barbie

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Who served?

The Chickenhawk Database

Members of the 108th Congress Who Served or Are Serving in the Military

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Stephen Colbert - White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Transcript


100 Most Banned Books


Photos from D.C. - Nancy Maynard

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Disinfotainment Today - Click Here!

FAnnetastic!


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Saint Clinton

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